Home Extensions Surrey Hills

Why do Surrey Hills locals love our home extensions?

Our services: RFT Solutions provides a sensible and affordable way to build a new home, renovate or extend in Surrey Hills. And beyond! We’ll take care of everything, from drafting to builders quotes, permits, construction cost estimates, building surveyors, engineers energy assessors – and more!

Our expertise: We’ve been designing home extensions in Surrey Hills for over 20 years. We can also design your new home or development, no matter where you are in Melbourne.

Our relationship: Trusting RFT Solutions with your next home extension means there’s nothing left for you to do other than sitting back and let us take care of everything. We’ll ensure that only the best consultants will work on your dream home extension.

Our experience: You don’t become Surrey Hill’s preferred home extension specialists without having the most skilled building designers out there. We’ll ensure your home extension blends perfectly with your existing home, your lifestyle, your vision, and your budget.

Your savings: Home extensions are not cheap, which is why you need RFT Solutions. We can deliver a 10-20% saving on typical construction costs because of our sensible and proven process that is individually designed just for you.

Your home: Because your home is your most expensive asset, we know the cookie-cutter approach will just not do. Our home extensions are tailored precisely to your specifications, your vision, and your dreams.

History of Surrey Hills

The Surrey Hills area was acquired from the Crown by Henry Elgar, as part of his Special Survey purchase in 1841.

The Surrey Hills area was first developed by a Real Estate consortia, following the extension of the railway line from Camberwell to Lilydale in 1882. Surrey Hills Post Office opened on 1 October 1884. Housing estates were laid out and lovely period homes built in either brick or weatherboard, with most designs being influenced by the Victorian, Federation and Edwardian era. The streets were planted mainly with avenues of Pin Oak and Plane trees, which are now mature and offer a pleasant shady vista. The streets have impressive names such as Empress, Kingston, Surrey, Balmoral, Leopold, Windsor, Albert and Wolseley, but the area was considered too distant from the nearest shopping districts: Camberwell to the west and Box Hill to the east. The economic depression of the 1890s brought development to a halt and the next major phase of suburban development didn’t take place until after the First World War.

During the 1990s, the last bank branch in the Union Road shopping strip closed, which caused some concern within both the local community and local traders. On 24 February 2003, the Surrey Hills Community Bank (a community bank branch of Bendigo Bank) opened for business in Union Road.

Source: Wikipedia – Surrey Hills, Victoria